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                                                        <h2 name="3c62" id="3c62" data-align="center" class="graf--h2">Open Journalism Project:</h2>
                                                        <p name="e970" id="e970" class="graf--p graf--empty">
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                                                        <h4 name="425a" id="425a" data-align="center" class="graf--h4"><em class="markup--em markup--h4-em">Better Student Journalism</em></h4>
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                                                        <h4 name="08db" id="08db" class="graf--h4 graf--empty"><br/></h4>
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                                                        <p name="d178" id="d178" class="graf--p">We pushed out the first version of the <a href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/"
                                                            data-href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor"
                                                            rel="nofollow">Open Journalism site</a> in January. Our goal is for the
                                                            site to be a place to teach students what they should know about journalism
                                                            on the web. It should be fun too.</p>
                                                        <p name="01ed" id="01ed" class="graf--p">Topics like <a href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/Mapping/"
                                                            data-href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/Mapping/"
                                                            class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow">mapping</a>, <a href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/Security/"
                                                            data-href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/Security/"
                                                            class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow">security</a>, command
                                                            line tools, and <a href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/Open-source/"
                                                            data-href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/Open-source/"
                                                            class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow">open source</a> are
                                                            all concepts that should be made more accessible, and should be easily
                                                            understood at a basic level by all journalists. We’re focusing on students
                                                            because we know student journalism well, and we believe that teaching maturing
                                                            journalists about the web will provide them with an important lens to view
                                                            the world with. This is how we got to where we are now.</p>
                                                        <h3 name="0348"
                                                        id="0348" class="graf--h3">Circa 2011</h3>
                                                        <p name="f923" id="f923" class="graf--p">In late 2011 I sat in the design room of our university’s student newsroom
                                                            with some of the other editors: Kate Hudson, Brent Rose, and Nicholas Maronese.
                                                            I was working as the photo editor then—something I loved doing. I was very
                                                            happy travelling and photographing people while listening to their stories.</p>
                                                        <p
                                                        name="c9d4" id="c9d4" class="graf--p">Photography was my lucky way of experiencing the many types of people
                                                            my generation seemed to avoid, as well as many the public spends too much
                                                            time discussing. One of my habits as a photographer was scouring sites
                                                            like Flickr to see how others could frame the world in ways I hadn’t previously
                                                            considered.</p>
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                                                                <figcaption class="imageCaption">topleftpixel.com</figcaption>
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                                                            <p name="930f" id="930f" class="graf--p">I started discovering beautiful things the <a href="http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/13/02/06/timelapse-strips-homewood.htm"
                                                                data-href="http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/13/02/06/timelapse-strips-homewood.htm"
                                                                class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow">web could do with images</a>:
                                                                things not possible with print. Just as every generation revolts against
                                                                walking in the previous generations shoes, I found myself questioning the
                                                                expectations that I came up against as a photo editor. In our newsroom
                                                                the expectations were built from an outdated information world. We were
                                                                expected to fill old shoes.</p>
                                                            <p name="2674" id="2674" class="graf--p">So we sat in our student newsroom—not very happy with what we were doing.
                                                                Our weekly newspaper had remained essentially unchanged for 40+ years.
                                                                Each editorial position had the same requirement every year. The <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">big</em> change
                                                                happened in the 80s when the paper started using colour. We’d also stumbled
                                                                into having a website, but it was updated just once a week with the release
                                                                of the newspaper.</p>
                                                            <p name="e498" id="e498" class="graf--p">Information had changed form, but the student newsroom hadn’t, and it
                                                                was becoming harder to romanticize the dusty newsprint smell coming from
                                                                the shoes we were handed down from previous generations of editors. It
                                                                was, we were told, all part of “becoming a journalist.”</p>
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                                                            <h3 name="e2f0" id="e2f0" class="graf--h3">We don’t know what we don’t know</h3>
                                                            <p name="8263" id="8263" class="graf--p">We spent much of the rest of the school year asking “what should we be
                                                                doing in the newsroom?”, which mainly led us to ask “how do we use the
                                                                web to tell stories?” It was a straightforward question that led to many
                                                                more questions about the web: something we knew little about. Out in the
                                                                real world, traditional journalists were struggling to keep their jobs
                                                                in a dying print world. They wore the same design of shoes that we were
                                                                supposed to fill. Being pushed to repeat old, failing strategies and blocked
                                                                from trying something new scared us.</p>
                                                            <p name="231e" id="231e" class="graf--p">We had questions, so we started doing some research. We talked with student
                                                                newsrooms in Canada and the United States, and filled too many Google Doc
                                                                files with notes. Looking at the notes now, they scream of fear. We annotated
                                                                our notes with naive solutions, often involving scrambled and immature
                                                                odysseys into the future of online journalism.</p>
                                                            <p name="6ec3" id="6ec3"
                                                            class="graf--p">There was a lot we didn’t know. We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">how to build a mobile app</strong>.
                                                                We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">if we should build a mobile app</strong>.
                                                                We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">how to run a server</strong>.
                                                                We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">where to go to find a server</strong>.
                                                                We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">how the web worked</strong>.
                                                                We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">how people used the web to read news</strong>.
                                                                We didn’t know <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">what news should be on the web</strong>.
                                                                If news is just information, what does that even look like?</p>
                                                            <p name="f373"
                                                            id="f373" class="graf--p">We asked these questions to many students at other papers to get a consensus
                                                                of what had worked and what hadn’t. They reported similar questions and
                                                                fears about the web but followed with “print advertising is keeping us
                                                                afloat so we can’t abandon it”.</p>
                                                            <p name="034b" id="034b" class="graf--p">In other words, we knew that we should be building a newer pair of shoes,
                                                                but we didn’t know what the function of the shoes should be.</p>
                                                            <h3 name="ea15"
                                                            id="ea15" class="graf--h3">Common problems in student newsrooms (2011)</h3>
                                                            <p name="a90b" id="a90b" class="graf--p">Our questioning of other student journalists in 15 student newsrooms brought
                                                                up a few repeating issues.</p>
                                                            <ul class="postList">
                                                                <li name="a586" id="a586" class="graf--li">Lack of mentorship</li>
                                                                <li name="a953" id="a953" class="graf--li">A news process that lacked consideration of the web</li>
                                                                <li name="6286"
                                                                id="6286" class="graf--li">No editor/position specific to the web</li>
                                                                <li name="04c1" id="04c1" class="graf--li">Little exposure to many of the cool projects being put together by professional
                                                                    newsrooms</li>
                                                                <li name="a1fb" id="a1fb" class="graf--li">Lack of diverse skills within the newsroom. Writers made up 95% of the
                                                                    personnel. Students with other skills were not sought because journalism
                                                                    was seen as “a career with words.” The other 5% were designers, designing
                                                                    words on computers, for print.</li>
                                                                <li name="0be9" id="0be9" class="graf--li">Not enough discussion between the business side and web efforts</li>
                                                            </ul>
                                                            <figure name="79ed" id="79ed" class="graf--figure">
                                                                <div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 322px;">
                                                                    <div class="aspect-ratio-fill" style="padding-bottom: 46%;"></div>
                                                                    <img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*_9KYIFrk_PqWFgptsMDeww.png"
                                                                    data-width="1086" data-height="500" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*_9KYIFrk_PqWFgptsMDeww.png"
                                                                    src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*_9KYIFrk_PqWFgptsMDeww.png"/>
                                                                </div>
                                                                <figcaption class="imageCaption">From our 2011 research</figcaption>
                                                            </figure>
                                                            <h3 name="8d0c" id="8d0c" class="graf--h3">Common problems in student newsrooms (2013)</h3>
                                                            <p name="3ef6" id="3ef6" class="graf--p">Two years later, we went back and looked at what had changed. We talked
                                                                to a dozen more newsrooms and weren’t surprised by our findings.</p>
                                                            <ul
                                                            class="postList">
                                                                <li name="abb1" id="abb1" class="graf--li">Still no mentorship or link to professional newsrooms building stories
                                                                    for the web</li>
                                                                <li name="9250" id="9250" class="graf--li">Very little control of website and technology</li>
                                                                <li name="d822" id="d822"
                                                                class="graf--li">The lack of exposure that student journalists have to interactive storytelling.
                                                                    While some newsrooms are in touch with what’s happening with the web and
                                                                    journalism, there still exists a huge gap between the student newsroom
                                                                    and its professional counterpart</li>
                                                                <li name="6bf2" id="6bf2" class="graf--li">No time in the current news development cycle for student newsrooms to
                                                                    experiment with the web</li>
                                                                <li name="e62f" id="e62f" class="graf--li">Lack of skill diversity (specifically coding, interaction design, and
                                                                    statistics)</li>
                                                                <li name="f4f0" id="f4f0" class="graf--li">Overly restricted access to student website technology. Changes are primarily
                                                                    visual rather than functional.</li>
                                                                <li name="8b8d" id="8b8d" class="graf--li">Significantly reduced print production of many papers</li>
                                                                <li name="dfe0"
                                                                id="dfe0" class="graf--li">Computers aren’t set up for experimenting with software and code, and
                                                                    often locked down</li>
                                                                </ul>
                                                                <p name="52cd" id="52cd" class="graf--p">Newsrooms have traditionally been covered in copies of The New York Times
                                                                    or Globe and Mail. Instead newsrooms should try spend at 20 minutes each
                                                                    week going over the coolest/weirdest online storytelling in an effort to
                                                                    expose each other to what is possible. “<a href="http://nytlabs.com/" data-href="http://nytlabs.com/"
                                                                    class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow">Hey, what has the New York Times R&amp;D lab been up to this week?</a>”</p>
                                                                <p
                                                                name="0142" id="0142" class="graf--p">Instead of having computers that are locked down, try setting aside a
                                                                    few office computers that allow students to play and “break”, or encourage
                                                                    editors to buy their own Macbooks so they’re always able to practice with
                                                                    code and new tools on their own.</p>
                                                                    <p name="5d29" id="5d29" class="graf--p">From all this we realized that changing a student newsroom is difficult.
                                                                        It takes patience. It requires that the business and editorial departments
                                                                        of the student newsroom be on the same (web)page. The shoes of the future
                                                                        must be different from the shoes we were given.</p>
                                                                    <p name="1ffc" id="1ffc"
                                                                    class="graf--p">We need to rethink how long the new shoe design will be valid. It’s more
                                                                        important that we focus on the process behind making footwear than on actually
                                                                        creating a specific shoe. We shouldn’t be building a shoe to last 40 years.
                                                                        Our footwear design process will allow us to change and adapt as technology
                                                                        evolves. The media landscape will change, so having a newsroom that can
                                                                        change with it will be critical.</p>
                                                                    <p name="2888" id="2888" class="graf--p"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">We are building a shoe machine, not a shoe.</strong>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p name="1955" id="1955" class="graf--p graf--empty">
                                                                        <br/>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <h3 name="9c30" id="9c30" class="graf--h3">A train or light at the end of the tunnel: are student newsrooms changing for the better?</h3>
                                                                    <p name="1f98" id="1f98" class="graf--p graf--empty">
                                                                        <br/>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p name="4634" id="4634" class="graf--p">In our 2013 research we found that almost 50% of student newsrooms had
                                                                        created roles specifically for the web. <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">This sounds great, but is still problematic in its current state.</strong>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <figure name="416f" id="416f" class="graf--figure">
                                                                        <div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 624px; max-height: 560px;">
                                                                            <div class="aspect-ratio-fill" style="padding-bottom: 89.7%;"></div>
                                                                            <img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*Vh2MpQjqjPkzYJaaWExoVg.png"
                                                                            data-width="624" data-height="560" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*Vh2MpQjqjPkzYJaaWExoVg.png"/>
                                                                        </div>
                                                                        <figcaption class="imageCaption"><strong class="markup--strong markup--figure-strong">We designed many of these slides to help explain to ourselves what we were doing</strong>
                                                                        </figcaption>
                                                                    </figure>
                                                                    <p name="39e6" id="39e6" class="graf--p">When a newsroom decides to create a position for the web, it’s often with
                                                                        the intent of having content flow steadily from writers onto the web. This
                                                                        is a big improvement from just uploading stories to the web whenever there
                                                                        is a print issue. <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">However…</em>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <ol class="postList">
                                                                        <li name="91b5" id="91b5" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">The handoff</strong>
                                                                            <br/>Problems arise because web editors are given roles that absolve the rest
                                                                            of the editors from thinking about the web. All editors should be involved
                                                                            in the process of story development for the web. While it’s a good idea
                                                                            to have one specific editor manage the website, contributors and editors
                                                                            should all play with and learn about the web. Instead of “can you make
                                                                            a computer do XYZ for me?”, we should be saying “can you show me how to
                                                                            make a computer do XYZ?”</li>
                                                                        <li name="6448" id="6448" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">Not just social media<br/></strong>A
                                                                            web editor could do much more than simply being in charge of the social
                                                                            media accounts for the student paper. Their responsibility could include
                                                                            teaching all other editors to be listening to what’s happening online.
                                                                            The web editor can take advantage of live information to change how the
                                                                            student newsroom reports news in real time.</li>
                                                                        <li name="ab30" id="ab30"
                                                                        class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">Web (interactive) editor<br/></strong>The
                                                                            goal of having a web editor should be for someone to build and tell stories
                                                                            that take full advantage of the web as their medium. Too often the web’s
                                                                            interactivity is not considered when developing the story. The web then
                                                                            ends up as a resting place for print words.</li>
                                                                    </ol>
                                                                    <p name="e983" id="e983" class="graf--p">Editors at newsrooms are still figuring out how to convince writers of
                                                                        the benefit to having their content online. There’s still a stronger draw
                                                                        to writers seeing their name in print than on the web. Showing writers
                                                                        that their stories can be told in new ways to larger audiences is a convincing
                                                                        argument that the web is a starting point for telling a story, not its
                                                                        graveyard.</p>
                                                                    <p name="5c11" id="5c11" class="graf--p">When everyone in the newsroom approaches their website with the intention
                                                                        of using it to explore the web as a medium, they all start to ask “what
                                                                        is possible?” and “what can be done?” You can’t expect students to think
                                                                        in terms of the web if it’s treated as a place for print words to hang
                                                                        out on a web page.</p>
                                                                    <p name="4eb1" id="4eb1" class="graf--p">We’re OK with this problem, if we see newsrooms continue to take small
                                                                        steps towards having all their editors involved in the stories for the
                                                                        web.</p>
                                                                    <figure name="7aab" id="7aab" class="graf--figure">
                                                                        <div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 382px;">
                                                                            <div class="aspect-ratio-fill" style="padding-bottom: 54.6%;"></div>
                                                                            <img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*2Ln_DmC95Xpz6LzgywkcFQ.png"
                                                                            data-width="1315" data-height="718" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*2Ln_DmC95Xpz6LzgywkcFQ.png"
                                                                            src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*2Ln_DmC95Xpz6LzgywkcFQ.png"/>
                                                                        </div>
                                                                        <figcaption class="imageCaption">The current Open Journalism site was a few years in the making. This was
                                                                            an original launch page we use in 2012</figcaption>
                                                                    </figure>
                                                                    <h3 name="08f5" id="08f5" class="graf--h3">What we know</h3>
                                                                    <ul class="postList">
                                                                        <li name="f7fe" id="f7fe" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">New process</strong>
                                                                            <br/>Our rough research has told us newsrooms need to be reorganized. This
                                                                            includes every part of the newsroom’s workflow: from where a story and
                                                                            its information comes from, to thinking of every word, pixel, and interaction
                                                                            the reader will have with your stories. If I was a photo editor that wanted
                                                                            to re-think my process with digital tools in mind, I’d start by asking
                                                                            “how are photo assignments processed and sent out?”, “how do we receive
                                                                            images?”, “what formats do images need to be exported in?”, “what type
                                                                            of screens will the images be viewed on?”, and “how are the designers getting
                                                                            these images?” Making a student newsroom digital isn’t about producing
                                                                            “digital manifestos”, it’s about being curious enough that you’ll want
                                                                            to to continue experimenting with your process until you’ve found one that
                                                                            fits your newsroom’s needs.</li>
                                                                        <li name="d757" id="d757" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">More (remote) mentorship</strong>
                                                                            <br/>Lack of mentorship is still a big problem. <a href="http://www.google.com/get/journalismfellowship/"
                                                                            data-href="http://www.google.com/get/journalismfellowship/" class="markup--anchor markup--li-anchor"
                                                                            rel="nofollow">Google’s fellowship program</a> is great. The fact that it
                                                                            only caters to United States students isn’t. There are only a handful of
                                                                            internships in Canada where students interested in journalism can get experience
                                                                            writing code and building interactive stories. We’re OK with this for now,
                                                                            as we expect internships and mentorship over the next 5 years between professional
                                                                            newsrooms and student newsrooms will only increase. It’s worth noting that
                                                                            some of that mentorship will likely be done remotely.</li>
                                                                        <li name="a9b8"
                                                                        id="a9b8" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">Changing a newsroom culture</strong>
                                                                            <br/>Skill diversity needs to change. We encourage every student newsroom we
                                                                            talk to, to start building a partnership with their school’s Computer Science
                                                                            department. It will take some work, but you’ll find there are many CS undergrads
                                                                            that love playing with web technologies, and using data to tell stories.
                                                                            Changing who is in the newsroom should be one of the first steps newsrooms
                                                                            take to changing how they tell stories. The same goes with getting designers
                                                                            who understand the wonderful interactive elements of the web and students
                                                                            who love statistics and exploring data. Getting students who are amazing
                                                                            at design, data, code, words, and images into one room is one of the coolest
                                                                            experience I’ve had. Everyone benefits from a more diverse newsroom.</li>
                                                                    </ul>
                                                                    <h3 name="a67e" id="a67e" class="graf--h3">What we don’t know</h3>
                                                                    <ul class="postList">
                                                                        <li name="7320" id="7320" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">Sharing curiosity for the web</strong>
                                                                            <br/>We don’t know how to best teach students about the web. It’s not efficient
                                                                            for us to teach coding classes. We do go into newsrooms and get them running
                                                                            their first code exercises, but if someone wants to learn to program, we
                                                                            can only provide the initial push and curiosity. We will be trying out
                                                                            “labs” with a few schools next school year to hopefully get a better idea
                                                                            of how to teach students about the web.</li>
                                                                        <li name="8b23" id="8b23" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">Business</strong>
                                                                            <br/>We don’t know how to convince the business side of student papers that
                                                                            they should invest in the web. At the very least we’re able to explain
                                                                            that having students graduate with their current skill set is painful in
                                                                            the current job market.</li>
                                                                        <li name="191e" id="191e" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">The future</strong>
                                                                            <br/>We don’t know what journalism or the web will be like in 10 years, but
                                                                            we can start encouraging students to keep an open mind about the skills
                                                                            they’ll need. We’re less interested in preparing students for the current
                                                                            newsroom climate, than we are in teaching students to have the ability
                                                                            to learn new tools quickly as they come and go.</li>
                                                                    </ul>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="section-inner sectionLayout--outsetColumn">
                                                        <figure name="b500" id="b500" class="graf--figure postField--outsetCenterImage">
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                                                                <div class="aspect-ratio-fill" style="padding-bottom: 36.4%;"></div>
                                                                <img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*Zz5haO6iz7Hlj0z2IUHulg.png"
                                                                data-width="1100" data-height="400" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*Zz5haO6iz7Hlj0z2IUHulg.png"
                                                                src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1200/1*Zz5haO6iz7Hlj0z2IUHulg.png"/>
                                                            </div>
                                                            <figcaption class="imageCaption">Another slide from 2012 website</figcaption>
                                                        </figure>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="section-inner layoutSingleColumn">
                                                        <h3 name="009a" id="009a" class="graf--h3">What we’re trying to share with others</h3>
                                                        <ul class="postList">
                                                            <li name="8bfa" id="8bfa" class="graf--li"><strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">A concise guide to building stories for the web</strong>
                                                                <br/>There are too many options to get started. We hope to provide an opinionated
                                                                guide that follows both our experiences, research, and observations from
                                                                trying to teach our peers.</li>
                                                        </ul>
                                                        <p name="8196" id="8196" class="graf--p">Student newsrooms don’t have investors to please. Student newsrooms can
                                                            change their website every week if they want to try a new design or interaction.
                                                            As long as students start treating the web as a different medium, and start
                                                            building stories around that idea, then we’ll know we’re moving forward.</p>
                                                        <h3
                                                        name="f6c6" id="f6c6" class="graf--h3">A note to professional news orgs</h3>
                                                            <p name="d8f5" id="d8f5" class="graf--p">We’re also asking professional newsrooms to be more open about their process
                                                                of developing stories for the web. You play a big part in this. This means
                                                                writing about it, and sharing code. We need to start building a bridge
                                                                between student journalism and professional newsrooms.</p>
                                                            <figure name="7ed3"
                                                            id="7ed3" class="graf--figure">
                                                                <div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 686px; max-height: 400px;">
                                                                    <div class="aspect-ratio-fill" style="padding-bottom: 58.3%;"></div>
                                                                    <img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*bXaR_NBJdoHpRc8lUWSsow.png"
                                                                    data-width="686" data-height="400" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*bXaR_NBJdoHpRc8lUWSsow.png"/>
                                                                </div>
                                                                <figcaption class="imageCaption">2012</figcaption>
                                                            </figure>
                                                            <h3 name="ee1b" id="ee1b" class="graf--h3">This is a start</h3>
                                                            <p name="ebf9" id="ebf9" class="graf--p">We going to continue slowly growing the content on <a href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/"
                                                                data-href="http://pippinlee.github.io/open-journalism-project/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor"
                                                                rel="nofollow">Open Journalism</a>. We still consider this the beta version,
                                                                but expect to polish it, and beef up the content for a real launch at the
                                                                beginning of the summer.</p>
                                                            <p name="bd44" id="bd44" class="graf--p">We expect to have more original tutorials as well as the beginnings of
                                                                what a curriculum may look like that a student newsroom can adopt to start
                                                                guiding their transition to become a web first newsroom. We’re also going
                                                                to be working with the <a href="http://queensjournal.ca/" data-href="http://queensjournal.ca/"
                                                                class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow">Queen’s Journal</a> and
                                                                <a
                                                                href="http://ubyssey.ca/" data-href="http://ubyssey.ca/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor"
                                                                rel="nofollow">The Ubyssey</a>next school year to better understand how to make the student
                                                                    newsroom a place for experimenting with telling stories on the web. If
                                                                    this sound like a good idea in your newsroom, we’re still looking to add
                                                                    1 more school.</p>
                                                            <p name="abd5" id="abd5" class="graf--p">We’re trying out some new shoes. And while they’re not self-lacing, and
                                                                smell a bit different, we feel lacing up a new pair of kicks can change
                                                                a lot.</p>
                                                            <figure name="4c68" id="4c68" class="graf--figure">
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                                                                    <div class="aspect-ratio-fill" style="padding-bottom: 56.2%;"></div>
                                                                    <img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*lulfisQxgSQ209vPHMAifg.png"
                                                                    data-width="950" data-height="534" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*lulfisQxgSQ209vPHMAifg.png"
                                                                    src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*lulfisQxgSQ209vPHMAifg.png"/>
                                                                </div>
                                                            </figure>
                                                            <p name="c6bf" id="c6bf" class="graf--p graf--empty">
                                                                <br/>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p name="2c5c" id="2c5c" class="graf--p"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Let’s talk. Let’s listen.</strong>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p name="63ec" id="63ec" class="graf--p"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">We’re still in the early stages of what this project will look like, so if you want to help or have thoughts, let’s talk.</strong>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p name="9376" id="9376" class="graf--p"><a href="mailto:pippinblee@gmail.com" data-href="mailto:pippinblee@gmail.com"
                                                                class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">pippin@pippinlee.com</strong></a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p name="dc4d" id="dc4d" class="graf--p graf--empty">
                                                                <br/>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p name="1bdf" id="1bdf" class="graf--p graf--empty">
                                                                <br/>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p name="ea00" id="ea00" class="graf--p graf--last"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">This isn’t supposed to be a </em>
                                                                <strong
                                                                class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">manifesto™©</em>
                                                                    </strong><em class="markup--em markup--p-em"> we just think it’s pretty cool to share what we’ve learned so far, and hope you’ll do the same. We’re all in this together.</em>
                                                            </p>
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